So. Much. Ignorance.
HAHAHAHAHA. I suppose you think Ben Carson is in that group? I wouldnt let that idiot tutor my child. And yes, there are plenty of other MDs that fall in that group also.
Finally...a witty response among the gibberish that is being spewed around here. It is quite outdated. I am for allowing people to own a gun, but you should have to go through a waiting period and checks. COMPROMISE. Asking you to submit to a background check and making you wait 30 days is not "the first step that the government will use to take our guns away," like most consevatives think.
Iceheart isnt the god of all things liberal. He makes plenty of stupid comments. Saying that you cannot scale Scandinavia's politics to a larger country is ignorant.
It is hard to believe, but W's SAT was higher than Clinton's and Obama's. And about the same as Kerry. Go figure.
None of my associates. It is hard to get into and out of Med school. And the neurosurgery residency is the hardest of all. So he isn't dumb. He was also an innovator. Maybe some of the doctors you know have killed brain cells in the usual way. Or maybe they have blinded themselves to reason due to self interest. There are no short cuts through any surgery residency of any type. There is also something called board certification.Very rigorous.
No, it's called the law, separation of power. You know that concept upon which our nation was built. When the Supreme Court and the President make laws I don't think that falls into the category of "narrow interpretation". And, yeah, I'm fixated on it.
Glad you asked this. Yes, some med schools are more competitive. Ivy's, Stanford, Hopkins at the top. Very good are Emory, Vandy, VA, UNC. MUSC and MCG are old and in a tier of very good schools. Newer ones like USC, Greenville, ECU are still competitive and good, but less so. Then the foreign/offshore. So you graduate. Every med student has to take step one and two of the national boards to graduate. Scores are important in getting interviews. Most have done a senior rotation at a hospital where they want to train. There are interviews during the senior year. The residencies interview and rank applicants. The med students rank their choices. All of this is official and organized. There is a day in March every year when a national computerized match takes place. And then you find out where you do your residency. Binding. The more prestigious places will have better applicants and in theory more people ranking them #1. If you rank a place 1 and it ranks you 1 then you get it. If you don't match at all then you must scramble for unfilled slots. Maybe in a field not of your choosing. The only "match buster" is some mysterious formula used to keep married couples together. Neurosurgery is a seven year residency most places. And there are fewer of them. Charleston(MUSC) has one but not Greenville or Columbia. They have General Surgery and Ortho, as does Charleston. I bet this process is unknown to most. It was to me until I went through it 35 years ago.
Boose -
Thanks for the very thoughtful reply Sundrop. I take issue with your point on segregation. There was the 1964 Voting Rights Act and the 1965 Civil Rights Act passed and the Supreme Court rightly upheld their constitutionality. This court, out of the blue, gave the same consideration to the GLBT community. I would proffer a law should have been passed since no other law was passed with knowledge it would be used to change our society on such a grand scale. The Court doesn't correct Congress. They rule on the constitutionality and interpret their laws, that's their "check" on the legislature. There are 3 arduous ways to change the Constitution and Congress alone can't do it. Obama signing the executive orders he himself said were unconstitutional 22 times, really gives me heartburn.
